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Three Green Building Lawyer Bloggers Predict The Next Big Thing

Stephen Del Percio, Lloyd Alter, Shari Shapiro, Chris Cheatham I follow the three leading bloggers on green building law closely; they make complicated and important issues affecting green building comprehensible. When I saw that they were all on a panel together at Greenbuild, I had to attend and meet them in person, and hear their responses to the question “What’s the Next Big Challenge in Green Building Law?” Although all three are great at making complex issues understandable to non-legal types, I still could not understand my notes well enough to do a post, so I asked them all to look into their crystal ball and send me their… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Brooks Organic Leather Bicycle Saddles Go the Distance

All photos supplied by Brooks The 1880’s were, arguably, the bicycle’s golden era. From that time we derived the so-called ‘Safety Bicycle’, where, unlike the ‘Penny Farthing,’ riders could reach the ground with their feet. The same period also saw the introduction of the chain drive, pneumatic bike tyres, and the first Brooks leather bicycle saddle (or seat.) With almost 150 years of leather craftsmanship, Brooks, continue to innovate, recently launching a line of vegetable tanned, organic leather bicycle saddles. Inspired not so much by a need to be ‘green,’ but by cyclist’s requests for even higher … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Gulf Oil Spill Threatens Extinction of World’s Smallest Seahorse

Photo via wikipedia The Gulf oil disaster has done still unknowable damage to marine wildlife, with everything from fish to seabirds under threat. But at least one species is threatened with extinction — the dwarf seahorse , a tiny animal less than two inches long which is unique to the Gulf Coast. It lives among the seagrass beds in shallow water most of the year, but huge chunks of these beds have been killed by the toxins from the spill.

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Gulf Oil Spill Threatens Extinction of World’s Smallest Seahorse

NASA Satellites Reveal Connection Between Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation and Wild Fires (Video)

Photo via Eggs&Beer Mountain pine beetles have been a problem for many years , especially the last decade. Warming temperatures have helped the destructive insect move into new territories. Their booming numbers and rapid spread have meant death for large patches of forests. Now NASA satellites have been able to detest these masses of forests killed off by the beetles and researchers have looked at how the damage done by the beetles is linked to forest fires — or as N… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Penny Farthing Race Celebrates Obsolete Bike

Image credit: The Knutsford Great Race From the fancy electric YikeBike (also described as a barstool on wheels), to bamboo bikes , Treehugger is used to covering the stranger end of cycle transportation. (Let’s not even talk about the 24-carat gold-plated f… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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